Amsinckia lycopsoides

Amsinckia lycopsoides is a species of flowering plant, known by the common name tarweed fiddleneck or bugloss fiddleneck, in the family Boraginaceae.^[2][3] It is one of the more common species of fiddleneck. It is native to much of western North America from California to British Columbia. It can be found in a wide variety of areas.

Amsinckia lycopsoides
Conservation status
Apparently Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Boraginales
Family:	Boraginaceae
Genus:	Amsinckia
Species:	A. lycopsoides
Binomial name
Amsinckia lycopsoides Lehm.
Synonyms[2]
List Benthamia lycopsoides (Lindl. ex Lehm.) Druce Amsinckia arenaria Suksd. Amsinckia barbata Greene Amsinckia campestris Greene Amsinckia douglasiana var. campestris (Greene) Jeps. Amsinckia douglasiana var. intactilis (J.F.Macbr.) Faegri Amsinckia glomerata Suksd. Amsinckia idahoensis M.E.Jones Amsinckia intactilis J.F.Macbr. Amsinckia setosissima Suksd. Amsinckia straminea Suksd. Benthamia arenaria (Suksd.) Druce Benthamia barbata (Greene) Druce Benthamia campestris (Greene) Druce Benthamia idahoensis (M.E.Jones) Druce

Description

Amsinckia lycopsoides is a bristly annual herb similar in appearance to other fiddlenecks. Its coiled inflorescence contains yellow flowers about a centimeter long and nearly the same in width, with a five-lobed corolla closed at the mouth by the bulges in the lobes. Flowers bloom April to July.^[4]

Illustration of Amsinckia lycopsoides

Introduced species

It is an introduced species far beyond the Pacific region, to Alaska, Texas, and New England. In Australia, the species has become a widespread weed of pasture lands.^[5]